The Trump administration says in a new report that Iran continues to be the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The report also notes a drop in the number of terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2016. In its annual "Country Reports on Terrorism" released Wednesday, the State Department...

U.S. President Donald Trump will nominate Jon Huntsman, an envoy to China under former Democratic President Barack Obama, as U.S. ambassador to Russia, the White House said on Tuesday. The job, all the more high-profile because of allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. presidential...

A German newspaper publisher says it has filed an appeal to Turkey's highest court against the incarceration for the past five months of a German-Turkish reporter. Deniz Yucel, who works for the daily Die Welt, was arrested Feb. 14 in Istanbul. Turkish authorities accuse him of disseminating...

 Hunkered down on the top floor of an abandoned building, two Americans and a British volunteer face off against Daesh (ISIS) snipers in the Syrian city of Raqqa. The trio, including two who served in the French Foreign Legion and the war in Iraq, have made the war against Daesh their...